by Dan Goldin (@post_trash_)
Toronto’s Deliluh are getting ready to release their second record of the year, Beneath The Floors, a new full length to accompany this Spring’s Oath Of Intent. Due out November 15th via Telephone Explosion (Freak Heat Waves, Odonis Odonis, Teenanger) and Tin Angel Records (Mauno), the art-punk band continue to dig into diamond tough post-punk and exuberant experimentation, with spoken vocals narrating the scene, dipping between frantic and monotone. Having already shared “Lickspittle: A Nut In The Paste” and “Hymn,” today we have the premiere of the album’s title-track and closer, “Beneath The Floors.”
In Deliluh’s world, everything feels cold and calculated, precise and deliberate. Their atmosphere is like something from Blade Runner, foggy, dark, and ominous as we delve deeper into their poetic punk splendor. “Beneath The Floors” is a slow burner with cinematic qualities. Opening with a rare acoustic guitar strum and the near out of tune crack of a snare drum, the vocals come in, spoken in clear, slow paced, enunciation, each word impactful as the story is presented, “estranged, alone, and home at last.” The drums kick in with a syncopated rhythm as guitars are bent into ethereal waves, ringing like a warning to all within earshot. The intellectual dreamscape of the lyrics is bolstered by a post-rock influenced take on punk, everything inching tensely toward a crescendo with a release that never truly comes so much as fades away into the night.
The video, directed by Gart Darley is a beautiful piece of collage work with vivid colors and gorgeous landscapes, both of this world and beyond it.